Onboard video card fried, how to replace?

ctkroeker · 07-12-2006, 04:18 PM

I've got two old PC's with the exact same problem. The onboard video card died on them. So I'm wondering if anyone knows how I could replace them? Because you have to disable the onboard in the BIOS before you can but a new one in, right?
I'm planning to make a sort of lab for people in my community that are interested at learning more about computers, the basics, typing, etc. I was thinking maybe I could set these things up as thin clients or something.
Anyways, I just need to know how to replace the video cards.
Please help.

sw67 · 07-12-2006, 04:27 PM

Disable onboard VGA in the BIOS (it's in Onboard Peripherals in my Award BIOS) just to be safe, and stick the new one in and you should be fine. [The new one being a PCI/AGP of course]
Once you've disabled it, it won't be seen by the OS, and it'll be as if you just have one card.
For the record, you could run with two cards in there, and use both, but I guess that's not really and issue if the onboard one's fried.

Matir · 07-12-2006, 05:07 PM

Most machines that I have seen will use a plug-in video card as the primary when one is present. So you should be able to boot by plugging in a standalone video card.

ctkroeker · 07-12-2006, 06:08 PM

OK, I tried your suggestion with a card I knew that worked, but the screen still was black (yes I did plug the monitor into the right card

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Any other way to do this? or is the mother board worthless now?

tamoneya · 07-12-2006, 10:41 PM

you cant seperate the onboard gfx card from the mother board and replace in any way. If i were you i would continue trying to get the PCI or AGP card to work. Give us more details about your system etc and we can try to fix it

tgo · 07-13-2006, 12:01 AM

I had this problem along time ago on my first attempt at building a pc and replacing it wtih an agp card worked perfect.

ctkroeker · 07-13-2006, 12:52 PM

One works fine now, I just put the new video card in a different slot and it worked.
But the other PC has a BXpro PC100 chipset (also SIS 6326 AGP). Pentium II.
Can´t think of anything else I can tell you about it except that it worked fine before and the video all of a sudden was gone.

Matir · 07-13-2006, 12:58 PM

Is there any chance its a BIOS issue? (I.e., have you tried resetting your BIOS using the battery, jumpers, or both?) Check your motherboard manual for details on a BIOS reset.

ctkroeker · 07-13-2006, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matir

Is there any chance its a BIOS issue? (I.e., have you tried resetting your BIOS using the battery, jumpers, or both?) Check your motherboard manual for details on a BIOS reset.

Sorry, I don't have a manual for this thing, come to think of it I don't even know where it comes from...
Do you think there are Jumpers on the board to disable the onboard video? I'll see if I can find a manual though...